This truss bridge formerly carried Vernon Boulevard over a Long Island Rail Road open cut at 48th Avenue in Hunters Point. It was torn down in the early 1990s, and…
Bridges
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Your webmaster has a history with the Manhattan Bridge — much more than the Brooklyn, as it turns out. As a kid I lived along the BMT 4th Avenue line, the…
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Street Lamps
ANCIEN REGIME: Before the Corvingtons and Crooks took over, there were all kinds of weird lampposts on the scene
by Kevin WalshStreetlamps powered by electricity first appeared on New York City streets in 1892, and while from about (as far as your webmaster can tell) the 1930s on, they fell into…
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Street Lamps
BRIDGES TOO FAR: Until recently, strange and wondrous lamppost designs could be found on NYC bridges
by Kevin WalshParalyzing inertia is my archenemy. Despite accumulating a wealth of knowledge about the relics and remnants of the NYC of the past throughout my teens, 20s and 30s, I didn’t…
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When I was a kid, they built a bridge in my back yard. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was built in five years between 1959 and 1964. Prior to that, there was no way…
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The Sunnyside Yards is a truly magnificent place…if you’re a railroad fan…an aficionado of the New York skyline…or a follower of ancient NYC street names, because the thousands of the fomer…
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This bridge, on Carroll Street spanning the Gowanus Canal, was built in 1889 by the Brooklyn Department of City Works (when Brooklyn was a city) and is one of two…
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The 145th Street Bridge, located in New York City, USA, is a four-lane swing bridge that crosses the Harlem River, connecting 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in Manhattan with East 149th Street and River Avenue in the Bronx. It once carried…